RG 84: Switzerland
State Department and Foreign Affairs Records
Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84)
Switzerland
The Swiss Federal Council, concerned about a general European war, proclaimed the neutrality of the Swiss Federation on March 21, 1938, shortly after Germany's violation of Austrian territory. In December 1938, fearful of the results of the Munich pact, the Swiss passed a law for the defense of the Republic and the Constitution, conferring extraordinary powers on the Swiss Federal Council. In August 1939, the Swiss made a firm declaration of neutrality, and alerted its frontier troops. On August 30, the Swiss Federal Assembly elected General Henri Guisan as commander-in-chief of the Swiss Army. Within days of the Germany invasion of Poland the Swiss Federal Council provided for a general mobilization and called-up 450,000 men. Guisan then set about erecting a defensive system to protect Swiss borders and letting it be known that any invasion of Switzerland would be more expensive than its occupation warranted.
When the war began the Germans already had broad economic dealings with the Swiss. And these economic relations increased during most of the war. German penetration into Swiss industry for cartel, tax evasion or Safehaven purposes, was accomplished principally through the establishment in Switzerland of subsidiary companies of powerful German firms. By war's end there were about 350 direct subsidiaries of German firms established in Switzerland. In addition, German participation in Swiss firms, particularly in chemicals, electricity, and fuel was considerable. German capital was invested in manufacturing and sales plants in Switzerland, but the greatest portion of German capital was in Swiss companies, which held German patents and the shares of nominally Swiss, but actually German-dominated subsidiaries. These companies also controled the international networks of the parent German companies. Over half of the total German capital in Switzerland was invested in holding companies for I.G. Farben, Merck, Siemens, Osram, and Henkel companies.
I.G. Farben and Henkel had their major holding companies for foreign subsidiary control located in Switzerland. I.G. Chemie controlled the intricate dummy and cloak network of I.G. Farben firms in Switzerland, Norway, and the United States. Merck, I.G. Farben, and Henkel had chemical and electro-chemical factories in Switzerland. German investments were also made in the iron, steel, and coal industries and in commercial trade, as well as in the paper and publishing trade.
Surrounded on all sides by the Axis powers, Switzerland attempted to hold on to its traditional policy of neutrality. This was quite difficult, for numerous reasons including the basic fact that much of Switzerland's food and all their fuel had to be imported, as well as raw materials. Additionally, the Swiss were reliant on Italy for use of its ports. Thus, on August 9, 1940, Germany and Switzerland signed a trade agreement that provided that Germany supply Switzerland with raw materials, including coal and iron. In return, the Swiss agreed to allow the Germans to transit across its territories to bring in goods from Italy.
Switzerland, during 1941 and 1942, was drawn more even more completely into Germany's trade orbit than the other neutrals, and by 1943, Germany absorbed nearly a third of all Swiss exports- primarily manufactured items that required small amounts of raw materials, large amounts of capital, and highly skilled labor. These included items, for which Swiss watch and machine tool industries were famous, that could not be produced at all in Germany or not in sufficient quantities to meet wartime needs. Switzerland provided Germany with arms, ammunition, and machinery, including locomotives as well as agricultural products. Allied bombing campaigns eventually forced Germany to move some of its arms factories to the safety of Swiss territory.
In addition, Switzerland annually exported to Germany one-half billion kilowatts of electricity, or about 40 percent of the total power supply of southern Germany, and Swiss hydroelectric power annually produced 16,000 tons of aluminum and aluminum products for Germany during the war. Moreover, the unprecedented use by Germany of the Swiss railway to transport goods to and from Italy (apart from the transit of actual materials which Switzerland banned) allowed large quantities of raw materials, foodstuffs, chemicals, and other materials to be transported to Italy and permitted Germany to mitigate some of the effects of the Allied control of the Mediterranean Sea.
It should be noted that despite the Allies establishing a black list of Swiss firms who traded with the Axis, the Swiss sold to the Axis and the Allies alike; its factories producing precision instruments, fuses, clocks and watches, and many other items. In fact Swiss trade with the Allies was great. The United State received from Switzeland during the war a number of Swiss products vital to its own wartime economy, most particularly watches and jewel bearings. In 1943 and 1944, a third of all Swiss watches were exported to the United States (nearly nine million altogether); with the result being that a number of American watch factories could convert to more critical manufacturing. The United States even acquired a considerable amount of gold from Switzerland.
Switzerland, more than any other European country, served as a refuge and center for Nazi financial operations. The leading Swiss banks served as international bankers to the Germans, and as links with Germany's network of foreign holdings and interests. Swiss francs were made available to Germany by Swiss banks' purchase of German gold. Other foreign currencies necessary for German war efforts and trade outside Germany were also made available to Germany. According to one historian, by the end of 1944, "it was estimated that German investments and accounts in Switzerland amounted to $600,000,000. It was also believed that considerable amounts of German assets were represented in securities, currencies, jewels, works of art, etc., held in Swiss safety deposit boxes. German real estate holdings in Switzerland were thought to be worth $62,500,000..." "Privately owned German accounts were reported to be in excess of 500 million Swiss francs. These," Margaret Clarke wrote, "were easy to cloak since the Secrecy Act permitted Swiss banks to hide ownership under numbered accounts." (Note 93)
Despite its assistance to the Axis, Germany and Italy often complained about the delay the Swiss took in filling their orders and the pro-Allied sentiments of the Swiss population, press and radio. The Germans were also displeased that Switzerland was a haven for spies, plotters against Hitler and the Reich, as well as a haven for Jewish and other refugees.
Switzerland was indeed a major operational center for both Allied and Axis intelligence services. During the war Switzerland was the center of intelligence battles among the Axis and Allies intelligence units. Swiss counterintelligence arrested 387 spies, mostly Swiss, but including 100 Germans were brought to trial of whom 17 were executed. Allen Dulles, the OSS Station Chief in Bern, from 1942 to 1945 (with OSS posts at Geneva, Zurich, Basel, and Lugano), British Intelligence operatives, and intelligence sources from many Axis and Allied countries used Switzerland as major place of operations during the war. (Note 94)
Switzerland, with a long humanitarian history and surrounded by Axis powers or Axis-dominated territory, still was a haven for refugees during the war. By May 1945, there were 115,000 refugees, interned military personnel, and escaped prisoners of war in Swiss camps. Altogether some 400,000 refugees and emigrants reached or passed through the country. (Note 95)
On December 19, 1943, after intense Allied pressure, an Allied-Swiss agreement was reached whereby the Swiss agreed to directly and indirectly limit their exports to Germany. In return, the Allies loosened their economic blockade, lifting an embargo on all navicerts and export licenses, including food, which the Allies instituted in March 1943, and promised to quit blacklisting suspected Swiss firms unless specific proof of violations arose.
German defeats and Allied pressure resulted in Switzerland, on October 1, 1944, agreeing to stop the export of all arms and ammunition, as well as airplane aprts and other military supplies. Not long afterwards the Swiss closed the Simplon tunnel to transit traffic, through it continued to keep open the St. Gotthard route for the Germans.
The American Government in late 1944 and early 1945, as part of the Safehaven Program, attempted to have Switzerland adhere to the Bretton Woods Resolution VI and to refrain from dealings with Germany. As a result of U.S.-U.K. negotiations with the Swiss in August 1944, Switzerland drastically reduced its exports of strategic items such as ammunition, locomotives, automobiles, diesel engines, and machinery to Germany. The Swiss also agreed to a ban on the transit of all war materials between Italy and Germany, including various categories of loot. In addition, the Swiss Government in February 1945 froze German assets and on March 2, the Swiss put a prohibition on importing and exporting foreign currencies.
In February 1945 an Allied negotiation team, led by Lauchlin Currie, Assistant to President Roosevelt, arrived in Bern to discuss Swiss trade with Germany and Safehaven issues. A month of difficult negotiations culminated in an exchange of letters on March 8, between the Allied delegation and the Swiss setting out a list of blocking measures the Swiss had taken or would take againt Germany and its Axis partners. The Swiss Government agreed to freeze all German assets in Switzerland, including those held through Swiss nationals; undertake a census of German assets; prohibit the importation, exportation, and dealing in all foreign currencies; and restrict Swiss purchase of gold from Germany. The Swiss also undertook to prevent their territory from being used for the disposal or concealment of assets taken illegally or under duress during the war. Further, the Swiss affirmed that, within the framework of Swiss (present and future), every facility would be accorded to dispossessed owners to claim their assets found in Switzerland.
The Swiss did, however, object to adhering to Resolution VI. Further, the Swiss were not persuaded to reveal the facts of the census of German assets, nor were they willing to reveal all the facts regarding future transactions with the Germans, make Swiss governmental machinery available to Allied inspectors and prosecutors, and allow their nationals to act as Allied agents against German interests. The Swiss regarded the Allies demands as contrary to their interests and position as a neutral.
Tensions over the interpretation and fulfillment of that agreement soon emerged and continued through the remainder of 1945. The U.S. Legation in Bern reported in May 1945 that subsequent to the Currie Mission, the Swiss purchased 3,000 kilograms of gold from Germany. It had arrived in Bern on the morning of April 6, 1945. Worse still for American authorities was the Swiss assertion that the purchase was not looted gold, despite the clear Allied policy since February 1944 to regard all gold coming from Germany as looted gold.
Early in 1946, the United States, Great Britain, and France invited Switzerland to send representatives to Washington D.C. to discuss the issues flowing from the Paris Reparations Conference of November-December 1945. The urgent desire on the part of Britain and France to revive commerce with Switzerland after the war made them reluctant to join in tough economic measures against Switzerland and caused serious policy differences with the United States. For its part, Switzerland held to its own interpretation of international law and would not accept Allied claims to German assets and monetary gold in Switzerland.
Negotiations began in early March 1946. On the eve of these negotiations the United States estimated that up to $579 million of monetary gold had been looted in Europe by the Nazis and that Germany shipped around $400 million in gold (estimated that $289 million had been looted) to Switzerland, mostly to the Swiss National Bank, during the war. Of that $400 million, Americn officials estimated that some $138 million had been "washed" through Switzerland and reexported to Portugal and Spain. But the Allies were not certain how much German and Nazi looted gold remained in Switzerland at the end of the war. Their estimates ranged from $200 million to as much as $398 million.
The Allied negotiators, in the face of Swiss intransignece and Allied interest in resuming commercial relations with Switzerland, as well as a new postwar United States emphasis on rebuilding war-torn Europe, reduced their negotiating postion first to $130 million, the amount of the Allied estimate of the looted Belgian central bank gold. In late April 1946, the Allies sought to break the stalemate with a proposal calling for Switzerland to provide $130 million in monetary gold and giving the Allies two-thirds of the revenues from the liquidation of German assets in Switzeland. Walter Stucki, head of the Swiss delegation, responded by breking off the negotiations. The amount the Allies sought was the reduced to $88 million, the amount of looted Belgian gold ultimately acknowledged by the Swiss.
The negotiations resumed in early May 1946 with a two-fold Swiss proposal. One part provided for a Swiss payment of $58.1 for the monetary gold in Switzeland. The United States Government decided to accept this $58 million figure. The second part of the agreement was to divide the results of the liquidation of German assets on a 50-50 basis. United States estimates of German external assets in Switzeland ranged from $250 million to $750 million, compared to $250,000 conceded by the Swiss. No total amount of assets was agreed to, nor would the Swiss give the Allies control over the identification of the assets.
After consulting the Secretary of Treasury Vinson, Secretary of War Patterson, Senior Asistant Secretary of State Clayton, and with Senator Harley Kilgore, Randolph Paul and his negotiators decided that the United States was not willing to resort to economic sanctions to achieve better agreement. Thus, after the British and French governments agreed, the Allied-Swiss Accord was signed in Washington, D.C. on May 26, 1946 in the form of a text with a number of side notes, including a commitment by the Swiss to look "sympathetically" at assisting stateless victims through the recovery of heirless assets for their benefit.
Almost immediately after signing the Washington Accord, the United States Government began the process of unblocking frozen Swiss assets in the United States. At the same time, serious problems arose between the Allies and Switerland over Swiss implementation, primarily relating to a fair Reichsmark-Swiss franc rate of exchange. Because of this problem, it was not until 1952 an agreement was reached on the terms and procedures for the liquidation of German external assets. The Swiss, however, immediately turned over $58 million in gold to the Tripartite Gold Commission.
The Allied-Swiss agreement of August 1952 called for a lump-sum settlement of $28 million for liquidating German assets in Switzerland. This figure was far less than that forseen in the 1946 Washington Accord. This final lump settlement was reduced by $4.7 million that the Swiss had advanced in settlement in 1948. (Note 96)
Records of the U.S. Legation in Bern, Switzerland
General Records 1936-1946, 1949-1952 (Entry 3207)
Boxes 1-150 & 24A
1941
Box# File # File Title
or Subject
66 800 Political Reports
802.1 Swiss Foreign
Office
69 848 Relief Measures
850 Economic Matters-Germany
850 Economic Matters-Switzerland
850.101 Census-Switzerland
850.101 Census-United States
851 Foreign Funds Control
851.51 Blocked Dollars, General
851.6 Banks, Banking
851.6 Freezing of
Foreign Assets
851.6 Swiss National
Bank
851.6 Swiss Bank
Corporation
854 Intellectual and Industrial Property
70 891 Press location:
350/68/17/04
1942
Box# File # File Title
or Subject
71 121 Dulles, Allen, W.
73 350 Property Rights
631 France-Switzerland
Germany-Switzerland
710 Vatican State-Relations with various
countries
74 711 American Republics-Axis
Powers
711 American Republics-Pope's Message
711 Post War Problems
711.2 Board of Economic
Warfare
711.2 Black List
711.2 Diamonds
711.2 Preemptive
Purchases
75 800 Political Reports
800 Basel-Political Reports
800 Geneva-Political Reports location:
350/68/17/04
76 800 Political Reports
800.1 Hitler location:
350/68/17/05
77 814.2
International Red Cross
840.1 Jews
840.1 Jews in France
848 Relief
78 850 Economic Matters
850 Post War Problems
851 German Securities
851 Securities
851 Switzerland-Gold
79 851.511 Switzerland-Gold
851.51 Switzerland-Gold
851.51 Foreign Funds Control
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements
851.6 Banks, Banking
851.6 Bank of France
851.6 Germany
851.6 German Banks
851.6 Swiss National
Bank
852 Aryanization of Commercial Properties
owned by Jews in
Occupied France
854 Intellectual and Industrial Property
81 885 Neutral Vessels
891 Swiss Press
82 891 Axis Press
891 German Press (3 folders)
891 Hungarian Press
891 Italian Press
83 891 Yugoslav Press location:
350/68/17/06
1943
Box# File # File Title
or Subject
85 124.66 Economic Warfare
86 350 Property Rights
710 Political Relations-Treaties
711 Postwar Problems
87 711 War Criminals
711.1 Swiss Neutrality
88 711.5
Dachau
88-89 800 Political
Reports
90 800.1
Hitler
800.1 Mussolini
8002. Goering
800.2 Pilet Golaz
800.2 Schacht, H.
840.1 French Refugees
840.1 Jews
840.1 Jews in Bulgaria
840.1 Jews in Croatia
840.1 Jews in Denmark
840.1 Jews in Europe
840.1 Jews in France
840.1 Jews in Germany
840.1 Jews in Greece
840.1 Jews in Hungary
840.1 Jews in Italy
840.1 Jews in the
Netherlands
840.1 Jews in Poland
840.1 Jews in Rumania
840.1 Jews in Slovakia
840.1 Jews in Switzerland
840.1 Switzerland
840.1 Refugees
840.3 Looted Art
848 Refugees in Switzerland
848 UNRRA
92 850 Economic Matters
850.31 Property Census
851 Financial Conditions
851 Vatican Financial Interest in Hungarian-Italian
Bank
851.51 Exchange
851.51 Foreign Funds Control
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements-McKittrick
851.6 German Bank
Directors
93 852 Property [includes
information on the distribution of Jewish-
owned land in Hungary]
854 Intellectual and Industrial Property
94 877 Railways
891 Swiss Press
1944
Box# File # File Title
or Subject
96 350 Property Rights
500 Bretton Woods
631 American Swiss Negotiations location:
350/68/17/07
97 701.1
Italy-Financial (6 folders)
701 Italian Representation in Switzerland
98 702.1
Germans in Switzerland
99 711 Postwar Problems
711 Postwar Planning
711 American Air Attacks on Switzerland
711 War Criminals
711.1 Swiss Neutrality
711.2 Neutral Commerce
711.2 Neutral Commerce-Blockade
711.3 Enemy Property-Trading
With Enemy loc: 350/68/18/01
100-102 800 Political Reports
103 800.1 Hitler
800.2 Count Ciano
800.2 Mussolini
800.2 Pilet Golaz
802.1 Swiss Foreign
Office
814.2 International
Red Cross
820 Military Affairs
822 Axis Troops-Switzerland
822 German Soldiers-Switzerland location:
350/68/18/01
104 840.3 Art
Treasures
840.3 Looted Italian
Art
848 Refugee Camps
848 Relief
848 Refugees in Switzerland location:
350/68/18/02
105 848 UNRRA
848 War Refugee Board
848 Refugees in Switzerland
850.31 Property Census
851.6 Germany
851.6 Italy
851.6 Japan
851.6 Exchange
851.6 Bank of Albania
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements
851.6 Swiss Bank
Corporation
851.6 Swiss National
Bank
851.6 Switzerland
106 852 Land-Jewish Property-France
877 Germany-Italy Traffic
877 Railways (2 folders)
879.6 Lufthansa
885 Neutral Shipping
107 891 Swiss Press location:
350/68/18/02
1945
Box# File # File Title
or Subject
108 124.6 War
History Report
110 631 Currie Mission
701.1/702.1 Germany-Public Officials and Employees in
Switzerland
111 702.1 Germans
in Switzerland
710 Germany/Switzerland
711 War Criminals
711 War Criminals-Goering
711 War Criminals-Nuremberg Trial
711 War Criminals-Von Gutenberg
711 War Criminals-Von Neurath
711.2 Black List
711.2 Proclaimed
List
711.3 Germany-Assets
in the United States
112 715 Dachau
113 800 Political Reports
800.1 Hitler
800.2 Mussolini
800.2 M. Pilet-Golaz
800.2 Stucki, W.
800.2 Pelitpierre
(Note 97)
114 802.1 Swiss
Foreign Office
814.2 International
Red Cross
820 Germany
115 840.1 Yugoslavian
Refugees in Switzerland
840.1 Jews in Europe
840.1 Jews in Germany
840.1 Jews in Switzerland
840.1 Switzerland,
Refugees In
116 848 UNRRA
850.3 Safehaven
850.51 Foreign Funds Control
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements
851.6 Banks, Banking
851.6 National Bank
of Albania
851.6 Swiss National
Bank
851.6 Switzerland-Assets
of Hungary, Bulgaria, and Rumania
117 879.6 Swiss
Air
118 885 Neutral Shipping location:
350/68/18/04
119 891 Swiss Press location:
350/68/18/04
1946
Box# File # File Title
or Subject
123 802.1 Swiss
Federal Political Department
802.1 Swiss Foreign
Office
124 814.2 International
Red Cross
711.1 Swiss Neutrality
126 840.1 Jewish
Refugees
840.1 Anglo-American
Committee of Inquiry
840.1 Austrian Jews
840.1 Bulgarian Jews
840.1 Jews in Czechoslovakia
840.1 Jews in Germany
840.1 Switzerland,
Refugees In
127 848 Joint Distribution Committee
848 UNRRA
128 850.3 Germany-Official
Assets in Switzerland
850.3 Enemy Assets,
Mobilization of, In Neutral Countries
851 German Safehaven Operations in
Switzerland
851 Securities in Germany
851.5 Switzerland-Spain-Portugal
Gold Shipments
851.51 Foreign Funds Control
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements
851.6 Swiss National
Bank
129 879.6 Swiss
Air
130 891 Swiss Press location:
350/68/18/05
1949
Box# File # Subject
131 300 Japanese Government:
Archives and Property
133 321.3 Enemy
Property, Trading With the Enemy
1950-1952
141 321.3 Neutrality
321.3 Interhandel
321.3 Swiss Assets
in United States
321.3 Swiss Bankers
Association
321.3 Trading With
the Enemy Act
General Records 1953-1963 (Entry 3209A)
Boxes 1-24
1953-1955
Box# File # Subject
1 321.3
Economic Warfare-Enemy Property; much information on
the Swiss-Allied Accord
321.3 Interhandel
1956-1958
Box# File # Subject
4 321.3
Alien Property
321.3 Foreign Assets
Control
321.3 German Assets
4-5 321.3 Interhandel
7 501.6
Swiss Banking
501.6 Swiss National
Bank
1959-1961
Box# File # Subject
13 321.3
Interhandel
321.3 Heirless Assets
in Switzerland and Washington Accords
501.6 Swiss Banking
1962-1963
Box# File # Subject
24 321.3
Interhandel
Classified General Records 1940-1952 (Entry 3208)
Boxes 1-111 location:
350/68/19/01
1940-1941
Box# File #
Subject
1-2
Various
1942
Box# File #
Subject
3 350
American Property-Italy
600 Export Reports
610.1 Portugal-Switzerland
631 France-Switzerland
631 Italy-Switzerland
631 Switzerland-United States location:
350/68/19/02
4 705
Foreign Interests-Switzerland
705 Foreign Interests-Switzerland-Funds
710/811.1 Germany-Vichy
710 Italy-Switzerland
711 Europe
711 France-Germany
711 Italy
711.2 Neutral Commerce-Blockade
800 Balkans
800 Belgium
800 Bulgaria
800 Croatia
800 Czechoslovakia
800 Europe
800 Greece
800 Hungary
800 Japan
800 Liechtenstein
800 Netherlands
800 Poland
800 Portugal
800 Spain
800 Turkey
800 Vatican City
800 France (2 folders)
800 Basel Political Reports
800 Geneva Political Reports
5 800
Germany (3 folders)
800 Switzerland
800 Italy-Germany
800 Italy
800 Italy-Switzerland
800 Rumania
6 800
Italy
800.1 Mussolini
800.2 Germany
814.2 International Red
Cross
820 Germany
820.02 Belgium
820.02 Europe
820.02 German Nationals-Switzerland
820.02 German Propaganda
820.02 Germans in Switzerland
820.02 Germany
820.02 Nazi Officials in Switzerland
820.02 Switzerland
821 Switzerland
822 Germans in Switzerland
824.2 Germany
824.2 Italy
824.2 Krupp
824.2 Skoda
824.8 Austria
824.8 Germany
824.8 Switzerland-German
Planes
824.8 Switzerland
824.8 Slovakia
7 840.1
Jews
840.1 Jewish Europe
840.1 Jews in France
840.1 Jews in Europe
840.1/811.11 German-Occupied Countries
840.1 Jews-Ransoming Procedures
840.1 Jews in Czechoslovakia
840.1 France-Children
840.1 Jews in Latvia
840.1 Jewish Children-France
840.1 Jews in Germany
840.1 Jews in Holland
840.1 Jews in Rumania
840.1 Jews in Unoccupied
France
840.1 Ransoming Procedure
840.4 Germany
850 France
850 Germany
850 Italy
851 Switzerland-United States
851 Belgium
851 Switzerland
851.5 Switzerland-Gold
851.5 Switzerland-Gold
Shipments
851.5 Turkey
851.5 Foreign Funds Control
851.6 German Reichsbank
851.7 Germany
851.6 Bank For International
Settlements
860 Germany
861.3 Germany
863.6 Germany-Italy
863.6 Germany
863.6 Italy
871 Censorship
877 Germany
877 Germany-Italy
877 Italy
879.6 Switzerland
879.6 North Africa-Switzerland
1943
Box# File #
Subject
8 350
American Property-Italy
631 Germany-Switzerland
631 Spain-Switzerland
631 Switzerland-Turkey
631 Switzerland-US
702.1 German Diplomatic
and Consular Personnel in Switzerland
710 Germany-Switzerland
711/820.02 Germans in Switzerland
711 Germany
9 711
Switzerland
711.2 Diamonds-Bulova
Watches
711.5 Dachau
711.6 Atrocity Stories
800 Austria
800 Balkans
800 Belgium
800 Bulgaria
800 Bosnia
800 Croatia
800 Egypt
800 France (4 folders)
800 Finland
800 Greece
800 Japan
800 Netherlands
800 Portugal
800 Russia
800 Slovakia
800 Spain
800 Turkey
800 Yugoslavia
800 France North Africa
10 800
France
800 France-Algiers
800 Germany (5 folders)
11 800
Germany
800 Germany-Braun-Wirth
800 Himmler
800 Hungary
800 Italy (4 folders)
12 800
Italy
800 Italy-Officials
800 Switzerland
800.1 Hitler
800.2 Daladier
800.2 Goering
800.2 Mussolini
800.2 Ribbentrop
800.2 Schacht
801.2 Fraudulent Passports
802.1 France
802.1 Germany
820 Germany
820 Switzerland
820.02 German Propaganda
820.02 Germans in Switzerland
13 820.02
Germany
820.02 Italians in Switzerland
820.02 Japanese in Switzerland
820.02 Switzerland-Espionage
820.02 Switzerland
820.02 Germans in Switzerland
840.1 French Refugees
Relief
840.1 Jews in France
850 Germany
850 Italy
851 Axis Countries-War Expenditures
851 Axis Countries-War Funds
851 Germany
851 Hungary
851 Italy
851 Liechtenstein
851 Switzerland
851 Turkey
851.5 Germany
851.5 Liechtenstein
851.5 Switzerland
851.5 Rumania-Switzerland
851.51 Balkans
851.51 France
851.51 French Francs
851.51 German Marks
851.51 Italian Lire
851.51 Jews in Italy
851.51 Liechtenstein
851.6 German Bank Director
851.6 Italian Banks
851.6 Kurzmeyer [Alfred]
851.6 Portugal
851.6 Societe De Banque
Suisse
851.6 Sweden
851.6 Switzerland location:
350/68/19/03
14 863.6
Germany-Switzerland
863.6 Germany
863.6 Italy
863.6 Turkey
877 Germany
877 Germany-Italy
877 Hungary
879.6 Switzerland location:
350/68/19/03
1944
Box# File #
Subject
15 800
Germany (2 folders)
800 France, Algiers location:
350/68/19/03
16 800
Germany
800 Hungary (2 folders)
800 Italy (2 folders)
17 800
Yugoslavia
800 Switzerland
820.02 Argentina
820.02 Fascists Agents
820.02 Fascists in Switzerland
820.02 German Agents
820.02 German Propaganda
820.02 Germans in Switzerland
820.02 Gestapo
18 820.02
Opel
820.02 Von Der Heydt
820.02 Spain
820.02 Switzerland
840.1 French Refugees-Switzeland
840.1 Germany
840.1 Jews
840.1 Jews in Europe
840.1 France, Children
840.1 Hungary
840.1 Jews in Germany
840.1 Jews in Hungary
840.1 Jews in Italy
840.1 Jews in Rumania
840.1 Jews in Lithuania
840.1 Jews in Slovakia
840.1 Jews in Poland
840.1 Luxembourg
840.1 Netherlands
840.1 Norway
840.1 Refugees in Switzerland
840.1 Russia
840.1 Switzerland
840.1 Poland
840.1 Refugees in Europe
824.8 US Aircraft in Switzerland
1945
Box# File #
Subject
19 631
Currie Mission
631 US-Portugal-Post Hostilities Agreement
701.1 German Legation
in Portugal
701.1 Italy-Financial
(3 folders)
701.1/702.1 Germany-Public Officials and Employees in Spain
20 701.1/702.1
Germany-Public Officials and Employees in Switzerland
711 War Criminals-Schact
711 War Criminals-Nuremberg Trials
711.2 Neutral Countries
711 Switzerland-Bombing of by US Planes
711 Switzerland-Bombing of by US Planes-Claims
21 800
Germany
800 German Colony-Basel
800 German Colony-Geneva
800 German Colony-Zurich
800 German-Swiss Border
800 Germany-Subversive Movement
800 German Government-Archives and Public
Property in
Switzerland
22 800
Japanese Government-Archives and Public Property in
Switzerland
800.1 Hitler
800.2 Himmler
800.2 Stucki [Walter]
801.2 Fraudulent Passports
801.2 Passports for Germans
811.1 Agentine Legation,
Bern
23 820.02
Axis Nationals
820.02 Fascists in Switzerland
820.02 German Propaganda
820.02 German Agents
820.02 Germans Expelled from Switzerland
820.02 German Intelligence Service
820.02 Germany-Nazi Party-Geneva
24 820.02
Nazi Agents
820.02 Nazi Hotels in Switzerland
820.02 Nazi Underground Movement
820.02 Nazi Propaganda
820.02 Nazis in Switzerland
820.02 Opel
820.02 Spain-Movements of Germans
820.02 Pan German Propaganda
820.02 Portugal, Spain, Nazi Assets in
820.02 Spain-Nazi Activities
820.02 Spain-Movement of Germans
820.02 Swiss Business Concerns, Suspected
820.02 Sweden, Nazi Activities in
820.02 Swiss Attorneys
820.02 Swiss-Espionange
1946
Box# File #
Subject
26 500
Paris Conference on Reparations
701.1/702.1 German Interests in Switzerland
27 124.6
War History Report; Contains a 52-page history of the
legation during World War II. The history, dated
February 8, 1946, was edited by First Secretary
Donald F. Bigelow. It contains sections entitled:
Introduction; Organization; Economic, Military, and
Political Reports; Protection of American Interests;
Economic Warfare; Procurement of Strategic Materials;
War Publicity; Relations with Resistance Movements;
and, Assistance to the United States Army Air Force.
711 Nuremberg Trials
711 War Criminals
711 War Criminals (Schact, Hjalmar)
711 Switzerland-Bombing of by US Planes
711 Switzerland-Bombing of by US Planes-Claims
for Damages
800 German Government-Archives and Public
Property
28 800
Japanese Government-Archives and Public Property
(5 folders)
29 800
Japanese Government-Archives and Public Property
(3 folders)
800 US Foreign Policy Toward Switzerland
802.1 Swiss Foreign Office
30 820.02
Censorhsip Intercepts
820.02 Enemy Activity in Switzerland
820.02 Fascists in Switzerland
820.02 German Agents in Switzerland
820.02 Nazi Agents
820.02 Nazi Agents in Switzerland
820.02 Nazi Party Membership Records
820.02 Nazis in Germany
820.02 Nazis in Sweden
820.02 Nazis in Switzerland
820.02 Schellenberg, Walter
820.02 Spain-Movements of Germans in
820.02 Western Hemisphere-Dangerous Germans in
31 820.02
Censorship Intercepts
820.02 Nazis in Switzerland
820.02 Nazis in Portugal
850.3 Nazi Agents-Expulsion
from Switzerland
850.3 Gold in Switzerland
850.3 Enemy Assets, Mobilization
of in Neutral Countries
850.3 German Assets in
Switzerland
850.3 Kilgore Committee
850.3 Union Reinsurance
Company
851.6 Switzerland-Gold
Policy
32 879.6
Swiss Air
1947
Box# File #
Subject
35 350
Restoration of Property in Germany Taken Under Duress
38 711
Bormann, Martin
711 Nuremberg Trials
711 War Crimes
711 Switzerland, Bombing of by United States
Planes
711 Schacht, Hjalmar
711 War Damage, Switzerland
800 Eva Braun's Diary [photostat] location:
350/68/19/07
39 800
German Government-Archives and Public Property
800 German Government-Archives and Public
Property in Spain
800 Germany-Reparations
40 800
Japanese Government-Archives and Public Propety
(3 folders)
42 804.4
Dachau
45 820.02
Censorship Intercepts
820.02 Latin America-Flight of Germans to
820.02 Nazi Party Membership-Switzerland
820.02 Nazi Party Membership Records-Switzerland
820.02 Von Der Heydt, Baron Eduard
820.02 Western Hemisphere-Dangerous Germans in
49 850.03
Safehaven Project
850.03 German Official Assets in Switzerland
850.03 Enemy Assets, Mobilization of in Neutral Countries
851.51 Unblocking Swiss Assets in US
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements
851.6 Swiss Bank Corporation
851.6 Swiss National Bank
50 879.6
Swiss Air
1948
Box# File #
Subject
57 350
Restoration of Property in Germany Taken Under Duress
350 Schellenberg, Walter
350 American Property-Italy
350 Looted Jewels-Goering
59 711
Switzerland-Bombing of by United States Planes
711 War Criminals-Nuremberg Trials location:
350/68/20/03
62 800
German Government Archives
63 800
Japanese Government, Archives and Public Property
64 801.2
Stateless Persons
804.44 Inheritance Laws, Swiss
68 820.02
Nazi Party Membership
820.02 Latin America-Flight of Germans to
71 850.03
IG Chemi-Basel
850.03 Unblocking of Swiss Assets in United States
850.03 Swiss Compensation Office
850.31 Census of American-Owned Property Abroad
850.3 Japanese Assets
in Neutral Countries
850.3 Petitpierre Opinion
850.3 Unblocking Swiss
Assets in United States
850.3 Washington Accord
850.7 Enemy Assets, Mobilization
of in Neutral Countries
850.3 German Assets in
Switzerland
851.6 Bank for International
Settlements
851.6 Swiss Assets
72 879.6
Swiss Air
1949
Box# File #
Subject
76 321.3
Fischer, Theodor
79 501
Gold Sales
501 Russian Gold
501/511.2 Russian Gold
501.6 Bulgarian Gold
501.6 Hungarian Gold
501.6 Liechtenstein Gold
501.6 Rumanian Gold
501.6 Yugoslav Gold
501.8 German Assets
501.8 Japanese Assets
in Neutral Countries
1950-1952
86 321.1
Swiss Neutrality
321.3 Enemy Assets/Swiss
Allied Agreement
321.3 Bosch, Hermann
321.3 Foreign Assets Control
321.3 Swiss Bankers Association
321.3 Trading With the
Enemy Act
321.3 Washington Accords-Renegotiations
(2 folders)
87 321.3
Washington Accords-Renegotiations (3 folders)
321.3 German Assets Files
321.3 IG Chemie location:
350/68/20/07
91 501.6
Bank of France
501.6 Bank for International
Settlements
501.6 Liechtenstein Gold
Classified General Records 1953-1961 (Entry 3209B)
Boxes 1-17 location:
350/68/30/04
1953-1955
Box# File #
Subject
1 321.3
Foreign Assets Control
321.3 Swiss-Allied Agreement
2 321.3
Interhandel
1956-1958
Box# File #
Subject
7 321.3
Economic Warfare (German Assets)
321.3 Interhandel (3 folders)